, 1887-06-15
WADfRG INTO WAID.
The Well Known Stockman Sued
for a Divorce.
. Petition That Is Specific in Its
Allegations.
Alleged Strange Doings for Which
Day and Date Are Given.


surprise ever among those who have
been cognizant of the fact that all was
not lovelyin the family of o. G. Waid,
the stockman, and that the skeleton in
the closet had, so to speak. jumped out
and raised merry Cain all over the house.
1t was no less han a petition from Mrs.
Irene Waid, praying that she be legally
released from her matrimonial contract
with Grin G. Waid, and that the court
compel him to transfer to her a suitable
portion of the SS0,O00 which he is said
to be worth.
The lady backs her request with a
string of allegations covering twelve
closely printed pages of very interesting
reading from a type writer. [. is prelim-
inarily stated that the parties were mar
ried in Sedalia, No, December Is, 1875,
and that in March, 1876, Mr.. Wade emf
grated to Wyoming, his wife following
just three months later. And here they
lived in peace and plenty for nearly a
year, when Mrs Waid says her liege lord
drove her from home by force and VIC
lence. but atterward persuaded her to re-
turn.
MI. Waid is accused in the document
not merely of eccentricity of behavior,
but positive cruelty, and in the autumn
of 1876 of a certain transaction which
cannot be mentioned in the columns of a
respectable newspaper. Matters are no,
minced in the petition. Spades are spuk-
en- of as spades.
1t is said that ON the Christmas daY,
1879, Mr.. Waid SO far forgot himself as
to curse and swear at her whom he had
promised to protect. Hostilities were
then suspended until July, 1888, when
he ordered Mrs. Waid to leave the prem
ises, and i'll a fit of frenzied rage at
tempted to destroy their marriage certi6
cate" IE the same month he accused
her of unlawful intimacy with a gentle
man who no longer lives here. Peace
again took the floor until the ID of April,
1887, when the plaintiff was once more
accused Of eccentric behavior, this time
with a young man of town whose name is
given. On'the following day she further
alleges that Mr.. Waid attempted to muir
der her, and renewed the attempt again
on the same day, and ended the matter by
driving her from home. He also, she
claims, has publicly declared that she was
gIilty of criminal intimacy with at least
two gentlemen now resident in the city,
and has lost no opportunity to openly
Islander her name and hlacken her charac
ter The document comes back at Mr..
Waid himself by making reference to an
evening which he spent in ST. Louis, Nov.
10, 1884, on which occasion it is spe-
officially asserted that he painted the
town red. The petition likewise states
that the defendant, by promising to pro
vide suitably for the comfort of Mrs.
Waid induced her to sign certain deeds
and instruments conveying her rights in
property owned jointly with her husband,
aud that she is now convinced that this
action was taken in order to defraud her
of the interest she owned in said property.
Taken in its entirety the document is
probably the most sensati, nal one OF its
class that has ever been filed in the terri
tory, and interest in the suit wi not fag
until it is terminated. Mr.. Waid will
probably produce his answer in q short
time, when some racy developments are
anticipated. Tom. Patterson, of Denver,
and Surveyor General Thompson and
Gibson CLARK, of this city, are attorneys
for the plaintiff.
Mr.. Waid is at present absent in the
Northern country looking alter stock
matters.